OCR transcription — Page 134
BU 92-61
The records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), Buffalo, New York, reflected that subject was arrested on April 21, 1924, by the Niagara Falls Police Department on a charge of violating Penal Law 1897 - cruelty to animals. The records of INS show the disposition of this arrest is unknown.
On December 18, 1957, [REDACTED], Niagara Falls Police Department, advised [REDACTED] could locate no record of the subject ever having been arrested by the Niagara Falls Police Department.
On December 20, 1957, [REDACTED], Niagara County, New York Sheriff's Office, Lockport, advised subject has no criminal record at the Niagara County Sheriff's Office.
The “New York Times” issue of August 17, 1921, which is on file in the New York Public Library in New York City, reflects an article captioned “Italian Band [REST OF HEADLINE UNCLEAR]”. This article reflected that BARTOLO FONTANA, a barber, 37 years of age, of 36 St. Mark's Place, was arrested for the killing of CAMILLO CAIZZO, whose body was found near Arverne, New Jersey. The article went on to state that FONTANA had admitted the killing and had implicated a “gang of hired assassins in sixteen killings.” The article set forth that five of the murders were done in Manhattan, two in Brooklyn and nine in Detroit over the previous seven years.
This article further set forth that the gang killed for money almost always using as the instrument [REDACTED] some young immigrant who was terrorized into slaying the marked man and himself put out of the way lest he confess. The gang was known as “The Good Killers.”
This article further pointed out that FONTANA, [REDACTED] having committed the murder unaided, but insisted that he had acted only after three members of the gang had backed him into a hallway in Brooklyn, pressed the muzzles of their pistols into his stomach and told him to swear to commit the crime, or they would blow him to pieces.
This article also pointed out that those arrested besides FONTANA were “MAGGADINO”, 30 years of age, whose address at that time was [PARTLY REDACTED] Roebling Street, Brooklyn. This article set forth that “MAGGADINO” was arrested at Grand Central Station.
[All historical allegations above are attributed to the cited 1921 newspaper report as summarized by the FBI.]
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